>tfw nano-scientist that is playing with universe makes less

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>this thread again
If you're doing it for the money, you're doing it wrong

>>8458581
Way to bump a dying thread.

>>8458581
Yeah I'm not doing it for the money but when I see that some idiot drawing emojis makes 10x what I make it really makes me question life

What's there to question?
Money is equivalent to people's time, not their skill. Also arguably drawing emojis is more useful for most people than afm images of dirt

>>8458581

If nobody gets paid for doing science, nobody will do it.

The amount of money paid to a profession is an expression of how much society values that profession.

Nobody can live on air and goodwill.

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I have two coding jobs - one is for a group at a research facility (muh superconducting qubits experiments) and one "data science" (looking at traffic data and doing statistic).
The first is badly paid (PhD student salary/hour) and the second one is "do it at home and present what you find" (i.e. I don't do shit for the money I get).
I'll quit both jobs eventually, but I'll drop the latter sooner, because I rather spend 5 more hours reading homotopy type theory or whatever papers than having extra money I don't know what to do with. (I'm not so interested in traveling.)
My point is probably that it may seem odd that simple jobs get paid more, but TO BE HONEST the simple coding jobs are relevant and the academics jobs are fapping around with stuff you enjoy. Of course, quantum computers, curing cancer, understanding spread of diseases... blabla. no, those are shills to get grant money. science is masturbation. I already like fapping all day more than looking at actually city statistics to the extent that I rather not get paid. If you were to study in Göttingen (or whatever the American equivalent is), then you're moving to a city with 1/3 student population, parties, fucking around - it's fair that the code monkeys get paid more, and more relevant (and hopefully organized so that those hours are not wasted), while uni is mostly fun and reading cool stuff.

>In 2004, it stood at 129,466 of which around 24,000 were students.
only 1/5, but still

why does a scheduler switch context so often if it's that expensive ?